Bob's Ton of Posts!

[302BOB]

Mugga rama around here today!....dew pts in the 70's..temps near 90...I'm a winter baby!..Maybe bad storms later with heavy rain, lighting and high winds...maybe hail to the chief...............Boss smiling in the garage...a lot cooler down there.............

 

[Grant 302]

Urf. Humidity is on the list of reasons I left Hawaii.

90º in late August...no, thanks.

 

[302BOB]

I was born here and I'll stay here...4 seasons....Brutal snowy, icy winter....Pleasant rainy Spring...Hot muggy summer and cooler leaf raking Fall.....pick your poison and enjoy....if there's a land that enjoys low 80's and low humidity year long, put me on the waiting list to move there.Canada would fit the bill for a few months before their winter kicked in.

 

[TMSBOSS]

There is something to be said about four seasons.

Not a whole lot of good things, but still........

 

[JDee]

I like the variety of seasons we have, I think it would be boring to have the same weather all year. I'd never been out of the great white north during the winter until Jan this year when I went south for a week. Winters are usually shorter now than they used to be and it's only really nasty with freezing rain. Snow is no big deal, we have tires for that and ice racing can be a ton of fun. This really hot muggy weather we're having now is worse than having snow! Well, not really, but sticky humid heat is not a lot of fun either.

 

[302BOB]

Snow is no big deal, we have tires for that

JDee, I love to watch the snow falling and I don't mind driving in it, when I have to (I have a 4WD)...but as I get older, the thought of clearing the driveway is more of a problem than it was in the past.

 

[JDee]

Bob, clearing snow is never fun but..... Snow Blower makes it a hell of a lot easier!

I used to have 4WD 'ute DD but I found it was overkill, pay more for it up front, pay more for fuel and repairs and you might need 4WD a couple of times a year. Went to a 2WD FWD smaller 'ute and with snow tires I've yet to have a problem. But then again, these days I can pick and choose when I go out, a year ago that wasn't the case and 4WD was really necessary.

 

[TMSBOSS]

JD tractor with 47” blower, insulated coveralls and a heated garage for the tractor make snow removal mush easier. 20 minutes start to finish. Shovels....we don’t need no stinking shovels.

 

[302BOB]

4WD was really necessary.

My 4WD is attached to a Tacoma Pickup that Son needs for his on the side landscaping business. A FWD vehicle would work around here...Ask Hon............

 

[302BOB]

we don’t need no stinking shovels.

You know you're in trouble when your plastic snow shovel wears down to 10 inches from the 14" it was when you bought it.

 

[TMSBOSS]

Thats a good thing. The shovel will be lighter when my wife uses it.

 

[302BOB]

The thought of snow is not with me right now. The storms of yesterday lowered the humidity and with temps in the mid 80's...not too bad today..................

 

[302BOB]

Gassed up the Boss yesterday.91 Octane $3.27 a gal...is that about right?

 

[JDee]

Looks nice to me, I'm paying $1.399 a litre for 91! That's $5.30 a US gallon in Canadian micro dollars which I think is $4.04 in USD? We had been paying less than a buck a litre for regular about 3 months ago, now we're paying $1.25 partly due to a new carbon tax and of course petroleum companies add on a touch for themselves at the same time. Go figure. A country with massive petroleum resources but no way to move them, thanks to the enviro nuts, virtue signalling politicians and a massive NIMBY culture.

 

[302BOB]

Supply and demand keeps the ball rolling.The oil industry doesn't want to price themselves out of a livelihood, even tho they do sometymes just to show they can. I will never forget the gas crisis we had in the 70's ...what a nightmare that was!!!!!!!!!

 

[JDee]

Yeah, wasn't as bad up here as you guys had it though. But you know what they say about Canada and the US, when the US gets a cold Canada sneezes, so we didn't escape totally unscathed from it either.

 

[TymeSlayer]

3.10 a gallon here in Colorado. Must be closer to the decaying dinosaurs.

 

[TMSBOSS]

$2.30 in MS. The dinosaurs are still roving down here.

 

[302BOB]

Those Dinosaurs are in a lot more places than you would believe or think of........trust me.................

 

[302BOB]

I see the Saturday crew starting to appear.Another stellar summer weekend on tap around Ct...sun with temps mid to upper 80's.Haven't had the AC in the window,in the summer,for a few yrs now since Son got me that BIG flat screen TV....It blocks the air flow............fans come in handy when I need to cool down...Hon never liked AC to begin with.......She may have something to do with this?